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duties

...Monchūjo, and Samurai-dokoro. But after the appointment of Hosokawa Yoriyuki as
kanrei, this post became the most important in the
bakufu government. The official business of the Mandokoro was to control the finances of the
bakufu; and later the Ise family, who were hereditary retainers of the Ashikaga, came to inherit this office. The Samurai-dokoro, besides handling...

establishment by Minamoto Yoritomo

...the substance of imperial power, invited Yoritomo to put an end to Yoshinaka’s dangerously successful career; and Yoritomo accordingly crushed Yoshinaka at Kyōto. Yoritomo now established the Kumonjo (“
Board of Public Papers”) and Monchūjo (“Board of Questioning”), setting up not only a military but also an independent political government in the east, yet...